Product Innovation The Green Advantage
An Introduction to Design for Environment for Australian Business
Environment Australia, April 2001
ISBN 0 642 54723 8
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About the booklet
This booklet explores Design for Environment (DfE) and how it can improve your organisation's financial, operational and marketing activities. It has been designed to help managers, designers, engineers, accountants and marketeers in organisations of all sizes initiate a DfE program. Further, it links with a series of other booklets, including the Framework for Public Environment Reporting, which Environment Australia has produced to help Australian industry continue to improve its environmental performance.
DfE, sometimes called ecodesign, is an approach that encourages businesses to give greater thought to the design of products so as to minimise their environmental impacts, while increasing market advantage and fostering innovation.
The principles of DfE are simple and implementing a DfE program is achievable for businesses of all sizes.
What we hope this booklet can do for you is:
- show you the economic and environmental benefits of DfE;
- show you how to introduce DfE into your business;
- give you some examples, through case studies, of Australian businesses that have successfully incorporated DfE into their business operations; and
- provide you with a useful list of additional resources and contacts.
For ease of use this booklet is presented in five sections. The first provides an overview of the concept of DfE and how it fits in with global and Australian manufacturing trends. The second outlines the benefits of implementing a DfE program, in terms of Australian business drivers. The third explains the steps involved in implementing DfE. The fourth contains five case studies and the final section provides useful contacts, web sites and access to more detailed information.
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